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Martijn Huisman is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Social Sciences, with a more concentrated focus on subfields including Health, Physiology, General Health Professions, Clinical Psychology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Their work covers several key topics such as:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Frailty in Older Adults
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

Martijn Huisman has contributed to multiple publications, with a significant presence in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Osteoporosis International
  • Gerontology
  • BMC Geriatrics

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Sleep characteristics across the lifespan in 1.1 million people from the Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States: a systematic review and meta-analysis," published in 2020 in Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Global trends in the prevalence and incidence of depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis," published in 2020 in Journal of Affective Disorders
  • "Genome-wide meta-analysis of muscle weakness identifies 15 susceptibility loci in older men and women," published in 2021 in Nature Communications
  • "Frailty Combined with Loneliness or Social Isolation: An Elevated Risk for Mortality in Later Life," published in 2020 in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
  • "Underlying goals of advance care planning (ACP): a qualitative analysis of the literature," published in 2020 in BMC Palliative Care

Frequent collaborators in Martijn Huisman's research include:

  • Natasja M. van Schoor
  • Almar A. L. Kok
  • Wiesje M. van der Flier
  • Emiel O. Hoogendijk
  • Henne Holstege

Best Publications

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

  • Educational inequalities in cause-specific mortality in middle-aged and older men and women in eight western European populations

    Martijn Huisman;Anton Kunst;Matthias Bopp;Jens Kristian Borgan

  • Cohort Profile: The Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam

    Martijn Huisman;Jan Poppelaars;Marleen van der Horst;Aartjan T F Beekman

  • Socioeconomic inequalities in morbidity among the elderly; A European overview

    Martijn Huisman;Anton E. Kunst;Johan P. Mackenbach

  • Health inequalities according to educational level in different welfare regimes: A comparison of 23 European countries

    Terje A. Eikemo;Terje A. Eikemo;Terje A. Eikemo;Martijn Huisman;Clare Bambra;Anton E. Kunst

  • Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality among elderly people in 11 European populations

    Martijn Huisman;Anton Kunst;Otto Andersen;Matthias Bopp

  • Sleep characteristics across the lifespan in 1.1 million people from the Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Desana Kocevska;Thom S Lysen;Aafje Dotinga;M Elisabeth Koopman-Verhoeff

  • Inequalities in the prevalence of smoking in the European Union: comparing education and income

    Martijn Huisman;Anton Kunst;Johan Mackenbach

  • Cohort profile: The Dutch 'TRacking Adolescents' Individual Lives' survey'; TRAILS

    Martijn Huisman;Albertine J. Oldehinkel;Andrea de Winter;Ruud B. Minderaa

  • A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies multiple longevity genes

    Joris Deelen;Joris Deelen;Daniel S. Evans;Dan E. Arking;Niccolò Tesi;Niccolò Tesi

  • Educational inequalities in smoking among men and women aged 16 years and older in 11 European countries

    Martijn Huisman;Anton Kunst;Johan Mackenbach

  • Neurological differences between 9-year-old children fed breast-milk or formula-milk as babies

    Lanting Ci;Fidler;Huisman M;Touwen Bc

  • Global trends in the prevalence and incidence of depression:a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Darío Moreno-Agostino;Yu-Tzu Wu;Christina Daskalopoulou;M Tasdik Hasan

  • Socio-economic inequalities in suicide: a European comparative study.

    Vincent Lorant;Vincent Lorant;Anton E Kunst;Martijn Huisman;Giuseppe Costa

  • Common variants in Alzheimer's disease and risk stratification by polygenic risk scores

    Itziar de Rojas;Itziar de Rojas;Sonia Moreno-Grau;Sonia Moreno-Grau;Niccolo Tesi;Benjamin Grenier-Boley

  • Socioeconomic differences in lack of recreational walking among older adults: the role of neighbourhood and individual factors

    Carlijn B. M. Kamphuis;Frank J. Van Lenthe;Katrina Giskes;Katrina Giskes;Martijn Huisman

  • Socioeconomic status and ischaemic heart disease mortality in 10 western European populations during the 1990s

    Mauricio Avendano;Anton E Kunst;Martijn Huisman;Frank V Lenthe

  • The Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam: cohort update 2016 and major findings.

    Emiel O. Hoogendijk;Dorly J. H. Deeg;Jan Poppelaars;Marleen van der Horst

  • Explaining the association between educational level and frailty in older adults: results from a 13-year longitudinal study in the Netherlands.

    Emiel O. Hoogendijk;Hein P.J. van Hout;Martijn W. Heymans;Henriëtte E. van der Horst

  • Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol

    Cristina Taddei;Bin Zhou;Honor Bixby;Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco

  • Inequalities in lung cancer mortality by the educational level in 10 European populations.

    Johan P. Mackenbach;Martijn Huisman;Otto Andersen;Matthias Bopp

Frequent Co-Authors

Dorly J. H. Deeg
Dorly J. H. Deeg University of Amsterdam
Frank J. van Lenthe
Frank J. van Lenthe Erasmus University Rotterdam
Marjolein Visser
Marjolein Visser Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Anton E. Kunst
Anton E. Kunst University of Amsterdam
Hannie C. Comijs
Hannie C. Comijs VU University Medical Center
Theo G. van Tilburg
Theo G. van Tilburg Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Matthias Bopp
Matthias Bopp University of Zurich
Wiesje M. van der Flier
Wiesje M. van der Flier Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Albertine J. Oldehinkel
Albertine J. Oldehinkel University Medical Center Groningen
Annika Rosengren
Annika Rosengren Sahlgrenska University Hospital

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